The Lahore High Court on Monday issued a notice, for June 24, to the Punjab government on a petition challenging the laptop distribution scheme. Syed Feroze Shah Gilani has filed the petition through Advocate AK Dogar, stating that the chief minister was bound to follow the Constitution.
The petitioner’s counsel said that free and compulsory education, for children between five and 16 years of age, had been recognised as a fundamental right under Article 25-A. He said that until the government ensured that all children across the province had access to schools and teachers, the chief minister could not spend money from the public exchequer according to his whims. The counsel also questioned the Finance Department proposal to give members of the provincial assembly laptops to ‘reduce printing expenditures related to the assembly proceedings’.
Published in The Express Tribune, June 18th, 2013.
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